News Release Archive: Star Cluster

2015

5/14/2015STScI-2015-161.Hubble Catches a Stellar Exodus in Action
Globular star clusters are isolated star cities, home to hundreds of thousands of stars. And like the fast pace of cities, there's plenty of action in these stellar metropolises. (More)

7/6/2010STScI-2010-2210.Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks
Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material... (More)

9/9/2009STScI-2009-2513.Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. (More)

1/15/2009STScI-2009-0514.Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular... (More)

2008

12/4/2008STScI-2008-4015.A Celestial Snow Globe of Stars
Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope catches an instantaneous glimpse of many hundreds of thousands... (More)

2007

12/4/2007STScI-2007-4219.How White Dwarfs Get Their 'Kicks'
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is providing strong evidence that white dwarfs, the burned-out relics of stars, are given a "kick" when they form. The sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced... (More)

2006

12/19/2006STScI-2006-5523.Celestial Season's Greetings from Hubble
Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic... (More)

4/18/2006STScI-2006-1726.Magellanic Gemstones in the Southern Sky
NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud — two sparkling... (More)

2005

11/10/2005STScI-2005-3528.Young Stars Sculpt Gas with Powerful Outflows
This image of star cluster NGC 346 and its surrounding star-formation region was taken in July 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)

2003

8/7/2003STScI-2003-2132.Too Close for Comfort
This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years... (More)

7/10/2003STScI-2003-1933.Oldest Known Planet Identified
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)

2001

10/4/2001STScI-2001-3336.Peering into the Core of a Globular Cluster
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer into the center of a dense swarm of stars called Omega Centauri. Located some 17,000 light-years... (More)

7/10/2001STScI-2001-2538.Hubble Snaps Picture of Remarkable Double Cluster
These two dazzling clusters of stars, called NGC 1850, are found in one of our neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photo's centerpiece is a young, "globular-like"... (More)

8/3/2000STScI-2000-2541.A Dying Star in Globular Cluster M15
The globular cluster M15 is shown in this color image obtained with the Hubble telescope. Lying some 40,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus... (More)

7/1/1999STScI-1999-2644.Hubble Images a Swarm of Ancient Stars
This stellar swarm is M80 (NGC 6093), one of the densest of the 147 known globular star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Located about 28,000 light-years... (More)

1997

10/29/1997STScI-1997-3547.Hubble Catches Up with a Blue Straggler Star
Astronomers have long been mystified by observations of a few hot, bright, apparently young stars residing in well-established communities where most of their neighbors... (More)

1993

8/27/1993STScI-1993-2056.Core of the Globular Cluster NGC 6624
This is a comparison of pictures of the core of the globular cluster NGC 6624, as imaged with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (More)

1992

4/1/1992STScI-1992-1160.Clearest View Yet of Massive Star Cluster
A new image processing technique has yielded the clearest view yet of an extraordinary star cluster located about 169,000 light years from Earth. The new technique... (More)

6/22/1990STScI-1990-0667.ESA's Faint Object Camera First Images
The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has successfully taken its first engineering test pictures of the heavens. (More)

5/20/1990STScI-1990-0468.HST WC/PC First Light Image
On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from a Las Campanas... (More)